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fibrosis
English
Etymology
fibro- +? -osis
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /fa??b?o?s?s/
Noun
fibrosis (countable and uncountable, plural fibroses)
- (medicine) The formation of (excess) fibrous connective tissue in an organ.
Derived terms
- cystic fibrosis
- fibrotic
- hepatofibrosis
- hyperfibrosis
- microfibrosis
- steatofibrosis
Translations
See also
- alanine aminotransferase
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?b?osis/, [fi????o.sis]
Noun
fibrosis f (uncountable)
- (medicine) fibrosis
Derived terms
- fibrosis quística
- fibrótico
Further reading
- “fibrosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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fibre
English
Alternative forms
- fiber (US)
Etymology
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fa?.b?(?)/
- Rhymes: -a?b?(?)
- Hyphenation: fi?bre
- Homophone: fiber
Noun
fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
- Dietary fibre.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 2:
- He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 2:
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2?
- (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- FBIer, brief, fiber
Danish
Noun
fibre c pl
- indefinite plural of fiber
French
Etymology
From Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fib?/
Noun
fibre f (plural fibres)
- fibre
Derived terms
- fibre de verre
- fibre optique
Related terms
Further reading
- “fibre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
fibre f pl
- plural of fibra
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- fibere
- fibrer
Noun
fibre m pl
- indefinite plural of fiber
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fibre]
Noun
fibre f
- indefinite plural of fibr?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of fibr?
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